Celebrities who use talent to sell their homes (and those who may need to)

Why should everything be easy for famous people? Shouldn’t they, like your average person, have to put some extra effort into selling their homes, or will their famous name alone be enough to bring hopeful buyers in droves. Not every celebrity rests on his or her laurels when it comes to real estate, however. Estately tipped us off to comedian Rita Rudner’s interesting home-for-sale ad. In it, she uses her talent — humor — to sell her house.

Such ingenuity might have helped Christina Aguilera unload her pink palace sooner (it sat two years without a buyer). She should have written a song about buying it from Ozzy and Sharon Ozbourne in 2008, then removing every hint of rock and roll and replacing it with pink upholstery. She could have shot the video in her walk in closet.

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Approaching the pink. All photos via MLS/Estately

Approaching the pink. All photos via MLS/Estately

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You have arrived. In pink. All photos via MLS/Estately

You have arrived. In pink. All photos via MLS/Estately

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Pink and glitter explosion. All photos via MLS/Estately.

Pink and glitter explosion. All photos via MLS/Estately.

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Beauty bar. All photos via MLS/Estately

Beauty bar. All photos via MLS/Estately

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The closet. All photos via MLS/Estately

The closet. All photos via MLS/Estately

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Tommy Lee Jones may also need to do something special to sell this weird Florida home/ranch for $26,750,000. The horse appearing at random doesn’t make up for a kitchen built into a hallway and what looks like the bathroom at a high school (though admittedly, a clean one).

Best feature: the land (and the horse!). All photos via Estately/MLS/Southfields Real Estate, Inc.

Best feature: the land (and the horse!). All photos via Estately/MLS/Southfields Real Estate, Inc.

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Larry David should also break out the big guns, gathering Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld cast to his home for sale in Pacific Palisades, CA. Trulia Luxe blog calls the home an “incredible” and “fairty-tale-esque” Tudor. We are frankly underwhelmed, especially at the $14,999,900 price tag; but we could be win over by a re-staging of the famous Costanza family “Festivus for the Rest of Us” episode in the David dining room.

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Exterior is indeed lovely. All photos via Trulia Luxe/MLS

Exterior is indeed lovely. All photos via Trulia Luxe/MLS

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Fireplace and lots and lots of other stuff in the living room/kitchen area. All photos via Trulia Luxe/MLS

Fireplace and lots and lots of other stuff in the living room/kitchen area. All photos via Trulia Luxe/MLS

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Anna Marie Erwert writes from both the renter and new buyer perspective, having (finally) achieved both statuses. She focuses on national real estate trends, specializing in the San Francisco Bay Area and Pacific Northwest, and writes for SFGate and CurbedSF. Follow Anna on Twitter: @AnnaMarieErwert